{"id":180443,"date":"2017-04-18T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/18\/this-is-a-no-lose-situation\/"},"modified":"2017-04-18T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T22:06:00","slug":"this-is-a-no-lose-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/18\/this-is-a-no-lose-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a No Lose Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

A special election in Georgia’s 6th<\/sup> Congressional district is a no lose for the Democrats.<\/p>\n

It’s clear that John Ossof, the only serious Democratic candidate, is going to get the most votes, there are 11 votes in the so called “Jungle”primary, in which the top two vote getters to on to the runoff.<\/p>\n

The only question is whether he breaks 50%, which would obviate the need for a runoff.<\/p>\n

If he breaks 50%, then he is elected, and the seat has a Democrat for the first time since Gingrich was elected in 1978.<\/p>\n

If he does not break 50%, then it is almost certain that he would lose the runoff, and the Obama\/Clinton establishment playbook, recruit a Neoliberal carpetbagger, shower them with money ($8.3 million more than the rest of the other candidates combined) would get a black eye.*<\/sup><\/p>\n

Remember that the Democratic National Committee could not be bothered to fund a real liberal James Thompson to the tune of one direct mailing in Kansas<\/a>, because it’s more important to them that Bernie and his supporters lose than that Democrats win. (It was a 7% loss in a district that Trump carried by 40%.)<\/p>\n

Once again, it’s the Iron Law of Institutions<\/a> in action.  <\/p>\n

I am so glad that I am not in GA-6:  I would have to choose between voting to make Republicans panicked, or slapping down the Democratic establishment, because it’s clear that in 2018, when it matters, Ossoff will lose.<\/p>\n

Polls close at 7pm, and I’ll post an update around midnight. <\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Which, of course, they would blame on Bernie Sanders.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional district is a no lose for the Democrats. It’s clear that John Ossof, the only serious Democratic candidate, is going to get the most votes, there are 11 votes in the so called “Jungle”primary, in which the top two vote getters to on to the runoff. The only …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,642,374],"class_list":["post-180443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-iron-law-of-institutions","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}